Developmental psychology

The article " Can a Playground Be Too Safe?" touched on many important points of playground safety and how it may be too strict. Dr. Sandseter states "Climbing equipment needs to be high enough, or else it will be too boring in the long run." I agree with Dr. Sandseter about how important it is to give children the opportunity to be challenged and take risks. Even if the risks are as simple as climbing a 4 foot ladder or going down the big slide. If we make the playground equipment too safe the…

The Exploration of Wild and Feral Children No! Wild Children are not like the kid from The Jungle Book. Wild children are children who have been separated from their families for a long period of time and raised in the wild by animals. These children adapt similar traits from the animals they were raised by and develop severe mental and physical damage. Feral children are children who have been held in captivity from the outside world by their parents or other captors in places such as a…

Early Childhood For my early childhood education observation, I visited Kansas City Kansas Early Childhood Center. KCKECC serves about 650 students ages 3,4, and 5. School is in session Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. There are both morning and afternoon sessions. I really enjoyed my time spent here. It was my first time in a pre-school that was a part of a school district, so a few things stuck out to me. All students were culturally diverse Goals are posted around the classroom and…

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ― P.J. O’Rourke Phycology separates parenting into four different typologies; authoritarian, permissive, neglectful, and authoritative, but what is the best way to parent? This question has been posed by every living generation today and it can be assumed it has probably been a reoccurring theme throughout history. It seems that every parent wants to prepare their child to be successful in society but what on earth…

Dr. Gwen Dewar is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was trained in anthropology, behavioral ecology, primatology, and evolutionary and comparative psychology. Dewar's article was written in a very informative manner where there was very little bias and included evidence from a variety of sources which includes first-hand accounts and peer-reviewed articles which adds to the credibility of Dewar's research…

The research article “Granny as Nanny: Positive Outcomes for Grandparents providing Childcare for Dual-Income Families: Fact or Myth?” (Low & Goh, 2015) provides a medium for understanding occupational deprivation and occupational identity. It is apparent that grandparents experience challenges when providing childcare for their grandchildren. Despite the challenges, grandparents find it meaningful to provide childcare because it fosters their wellbeing. By exploring the concepts of personal and…

Raising a Child (3 Messages from The Rocking Horse Winner) Labeled: jock, geek, prep, outcast, etc. Everyone ends up receiving a label somehow. The question is how? How did these labels occur? Mom said that that guy was weird and dad said to stay away from him because he is a hoodlum. Mom and dad had been to teach us labels without knowing it. Mom and dad are the people who don’t realize that they messed up their kids until it was too late. Paul ended up dying because of his mother. In D.W.…

The preposition above deals with the issues relating to a child in question. The word ‘Parent’ is defined in Section 576 of the Education Act 1996 as: all natural parents whether married or not, It can also be any person, who is not a natural parent of a child but who has the parental responsibility of a child (foster parents, godparents, adoptive parents etc.) and any person who, although not a natural parent, has care of a child or young person (having care of a child or young person means…

With the social media age in full effect, parents want to and feel like they need to post and show off their children in a way that they can feel accomplished. When parents posts photos and updates about their children on their social media accounts, they are potentially harming their children for their future according to the author, Adrienne Lafrance, of The Atlantic in her 2016 article. In “The Perils of ‘Sharenting’”, Adrienne Lafrance argues that parents need to be more careful when posting…

Contemporary perspectives of learning and development have had a strong influential factor on how we perceive childhood today. However, the image of child cannot be easily defined. It encompasses the broad spectrums of age, cognitive, physical and emotional development, environment and the political parameters that sanction child to adult transitions. (James. A. & James, A. 2008 ) Also Complicating this is the notion by Sorin and Galloway(2006) that childhood is socially and culturally…